Paleo Almond Butter Cookies (Vegan and Keto Options)

These simple Paleo Almond Butter Cookies are a delicious, easy treat that any health-minded mom can feel great about serving to her family.

The hint of sweetness provided by a little honey and some raisins is just enough to make them special enough for when you need a sweet treat, but they’re healthy enough that you can even consider serving them for breakfast (and no, I won’t tell).

Even in a home that is committed to eating healthy, cookies still have a place. Just because your OREO days are over, doesn’t mean you can’t still eat cookies.

They just have to be healthy cookies.

And these cookies are just that. They’re grain free, refined sugar free, and vegan so they’re perfect for just about any special diet. And if you use a low-carb sweetener, they work for the candida diet too.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

This recipe is:

• easy to make
• flexible for all kinds of special diets
• easily adaptable for according to your liking (add/swap mix-ins as you like)
• freezes well
• rich and chocolatey finger-licking delicous!

Ingredients

Following are the ingredients you’ll need to make these delicious cookies. For the amounts needed, simply scroll down to the recipe card.

• almond butter
• flax or eggs
• honey
• baking soda
• salt
• coconut
• more optional mix-ins (nut and/or chocolate chips)

Directions

Here are the basics for how to make these super simple cookies. For details, simply scroll down to the recipe card.

Combine flax and water. Set aside to gel.

Mix other ingredients in a bowl. Add the gelled flax.

Bake.

So easy and so yummy!

Sweetener Options

You can use honey as written, for this recipe, or you can use maple syrup as well.

Other options are Sucanat or coconut sugar (for a lower glycemic index), or you could even use a low-carb sweetener to make these totally sugar-free and low carb. Lakanto or allulose are good choices for that.

You’ll want to increase any alternative sweetener aside from the maple syrup, however, because honey and maple syrup are sweeter than sugar.

Recipe Notes

No matter how you make these, you’re for sure going to love them.

Variations

There are so many ways to change this recipe around to make it whatever you like. Here are some ideas to whet your creative appetite:

• add extra coconut and a dash of coconut extract for a super coconutty version.
• add dried cranberries and use slivered or chopped almonds for the nuts. Macadamia nuts would be a great choice as well.
• add pecans for the nuts and extra chocolate chips and salt for a salted chocolate pecan version.
• use healthy white chocolate chips and macadamias.
• add chopped bacon, pecans, and chocolate chips.

The possibilities are truly endless.

Storage

1. To store: store these cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
2. To freeze: after cooling the cookies completely, place them in an airtight container lined with wax or parchment paper or in a freezer-safe bag. You can freeze them for up to 2 months. Simply thaw out at room temperature when ready to eat.

• Preheat oven to 375.

• In a large bowl, combine eggs, nut butter, and honey until smooth.

• Stir in remaining ingredients.

• Place about 2 tablespoonfuls of dough onto an un-greased cookie sheet or baking stone (you can use parchment if you want).

• Bake for 10 minutes, or until golden brown.

• Remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.

Flax Egg Option

• In small bowl, whisk together 2 tablespoons flax meal and 1/3 cup water. Let set until gelled (about 5 minutes), then proceed with the rest of the recipe.

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 282kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 0.003g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 155mg | Potassium: 248mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 41IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 83mg | Iron: 2mg | Net Carbs: 14g

Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is merely an approximation. Optional ingredients are not included and when there is an alternative, the primary ingredient is typically used. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the nutritional information given for any recipe on this site. Erythritol carbs are not included in carb counts since they have been shown not to impact blood sugar. Net carbs are the total carbs minus fiber.

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Raia is a homeschooling, stay-at-home mom of four crazy kids. After the birth of her third child in 2010, she was diagnosed with “trauma-induced gluten intolerance”. This turned her whole-wheat-bread, pasta-filled life upside down and set her on a mission to find out what healthy really meant for her family. Aspiring to encourage other moms wandering the allergen-infested isles of grocery stores, she shares her love of simple, allergy-friendly baking (and chocolate) at Raia’s Recipes. When she’s not whipping up something new in the kitchen, Raia enjoys trying to keep the plants in her backyard garden alive, hanging out with her church family, eating (allergy-friendly) pizza, and dreaming about all the things she’d do if she had an acre of land to homestead.